Photo radar revenue going into traffic safety initiatives

Wetaskiwin City council has decided to put all of the money generated from photo radar tickets into a reserve for use on future traffic safety initiatives.

At the Dec. 17 regular council meeting, councillors were presented with three options for the development of a Traffic Safety and Automated Enforcement Reserve.

The first was to transfer five per cent of gross recoveries into the reserve each year.

The second option would be to transfer 50 per cent of the net fund into the reserve at the end of the year.

The third option, which council voted in favour of, would be to transfer 100 per cent of the net funds to the reserve at the end of the year to be used for safer and community infrastructure programs related to traffic safety.

“It must be used for traffic safety education or initiatives that council approves,” said Brian McCulloch, director of Corporate Services.

“I think it’s really important we use the revenue generated for traffic safety,” said Coun. Patricia MacQuarrie.

Council agreed, voting in favour of 100 per cent of net revenue going into reserve.